The Committee for Child Laborers and Homeless Children, which started its activities in 2000 in Darvazeh Ghar, Tehran:

Project Objectives:

General goal: empowering the children in difficult situations, children exposed to trauma, abused children and homeless children in Darvazeh Ghar (district 4; area 12), taking into consideration the principle of simultaneous and coordinated attention to the child, the family and their social environment; in other words, the project is inspired by the concepts of "healthy family" and "positive social environment" along with "local and public contribution and togetherness."  

Executive Goals

Identifying factors threatening the child, the family and the community and identifying protective factors through filed research and survey in the area;

Enlightening the public, modifying and improving attitudes towards the problem of the homeless child;

Stirring and reinforcing the feeling of responsibility and social commitment in individuals, groups, non-governmental organizations and state departments;

Attracting and organizing financial and human resources and contributions and local and public protective factors;

Intervening when the child and its family are in difficult situations through education directed at regaining psychological and social well-being, presenting basic patterns of public activities and methods of contribution aimed at preventing and confronting

social traumas.

Project Title:

Empowerment of children in difficult situations

(with emphasis on homeless children)

Project Setup:

The Committee for Child Laborers and Homeless Children of the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child is responsible for executing the project. Within the framework of the approved regulations of the Committee for Child Laborers and Homeless Children, local councils, citizens or dedicated individuals from charities, non-governmental organizations and governmental departments who wish to contribute to the project can cooperate with the Committee for Child Laborers and Homeless Children.

Project Programs:

1-Programs for training volunteer members;

2-Programs fro attracting, accepting and coordination those who seek help;

3-Programs for providing health and hygiene services;

4-Intervention programs (in case of difficult and critical situations);

5-Training programs (literacy, official  and non-official education, vocational training);

6-Culture, arts, sports and recreation programs;

7-Research programs;

8-Assessment programs.

Project Costs:

Since the Society for Protecting of the Rights of the Child is a non-governmental organization which seeks humanitarian objectives and collective development, it has no interest in financial gain and benefit. However, the project does have unavoidable costs. Due to the increasing expansion of the project, it is not possible to exactly determine these expenses at present. The main costs of the project include expenses for supplying education, hygiene, sports, social work, medicine and nutrition facilities, equipment of a library, provisions and equipment for offices and other, unpredictable costs.

Proposals:

1-Establishing the High Council of the Child under the supervision of the presidency in order to consolidate policy making and activities related to children and teenagers and to resolve legal and administrative problems in order to advance the goals of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

2-Training the public on the rights of the child through textbooks in schools, universities, cultural centers and rural health centers, and promoting the Convention on the Rights of the Child through mass media, especially the Islamic of Republic of Iran Broadcasting;

3-Revising and improving the law to the benefit of the children;

4-Establishing safe shelters to protect children exposed to violence and also runaway children, and reforming their families;

5-Providing pre-natal services and education for future mothers and fathers concerning the acceptance of responsibility, and providing free social work and nursing services for the full length of pregnancy, offering free training – consultative services after child birth in order to help creating healthy, suitable relationships between the parents and the child;

6-Providing easily accessible consultative, social, psychological and educational services in separate districts and areas, especially those exposed to trauma;

7-Clarifying and stipulating the definition of childhood in state laws according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child;

8-Supervising the proper enforcement of the labor act;

9-Fulfilling the motto "Education is the job of the child" for child laborers and homeless children;

10-Issuing birth certificates for those children that do not have one;

11-Calling serious attention to the problem of homeless children and runaways and to the establishment of suitable shelters, and the need to reform their families.